My left knee pain has now been diagnosed as arthritis .
The beginning of the end of my cycling maybe.
I don't know what type I'm afraid. That was all that the physio told me. Maybe I should make a appointment at the doctors to see if I can find out.
Bummer... From ~2000 to 2007 I used to get stabbing pains in my left knee on occasion, right at the top of the tibia and on the left. On one 600k when I had to climb up to the Jura plateau it was bloody murder. Doc & fizzy both rumbled on about arthritis, but after that ride it disappeared and I've never had it since. Maybe I ground something off.
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After yesterday's ride I'm going ask the GP about IBS.* For some time now I've been alternating between two days' constipation and one day during which I will go twice, usually an hour or so after eating, with about ten minutes' notice between the first stirrings and the pressure becoming agony. Yesterday a bumpy bit of tow-path triggered proceedings, and I had to turn off and negotiate a 9% climb before finding a corner of a foreign field that could be forever Ireland. It's hard to climb well with a cracking sphincter.
Anyway, it's getting to the point where I'm staying home rather than do long rides where I know there'll not be much chance of cludges or good cover. Bah.
* not to mention Earts, the other Edinburgh football team.